I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.